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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45729	The plain mans plain path-way to heaven directing every man how he may be saved.	Hart, John, D.D.	1665 (1665)	Wing H957; ESTC R40948	12,076	24

repent of his own sins the sins of the Nation would soon be blotted out Yet forty daye● and Nineve shall be bestroyed saith the Lord and yet upon their repentance the Lord pardoned them and if ever they would go to heaven it must he by faith and repentance for no repentance no salvation Except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish saith our Saviour Luke 13.3 Without holiness no man shall see the Lord Heb. 12.14 and without repentance there can be no holiness for holiness is the fruit of repentance if we be not holy here we shall never be happy hereafter God himself hath said so and he is no lyar The devil may perswade you otherwise but he is a lyar and the father of lyes John 8 8. he will perswade you so onely to delude your souls and draw you into hell he speaks you fair but it may be he will tell you another tale in hell He is like a great Bragadocio that promiseth great things but indeed hath nothing to pay but hell and damnation All this will I give thee if thou wilt fall down and worship me saith the devil to our Saviour Mat. 4. But I pray whose is the world Is not the earth the Lords and the fulness thereof Psal 24.1 The Devil hath nothing at all to do with it but as the Lord gives him leave Riches and honor worldly honour greatness are the devils baits to catch poor souls He lays these things before their eyes but it is the soul he aims at let him say what he will the end of his work is onely to delude and destroy poor souls the Devil promiseth much and hath nothing to pay but hell and damnation and yet how many believe him Let the Lord say here is my Christ take him much good may he do you here 's pardon of sin receive ●here is life and salvation heaven and happiness and who is there that dares to receive You will not come to me that you might have life saith Christ but let but the devil say you may go on in your sins take your pleasure in the world all ●hall be well with you it is time enough to repent hereaftrr how readily do men believe him But if men did but know and believe whither ●hey are going when they are going in the ways of sin they would go another way The way of ●in is the broad way to hell you go me●●●ly along it s down the hill you are running but take heed you will fall into hell at last It is just with men going to hell as it was with the man that was to go over a great River on a narrow Bridge ●he puts on his spectacles and so the bridge seem'd wider then it was and the poor man walks on ●ecurely and so falls beside the Bridge and is drowned wicked men they look on the world with the devils spectacles and so it seems very pleasant and delightful and they run on securely as we say without fear or wit not considering that every step they tread they are ready to fall into hell O sinners consider when you are sinning you are dancing about the mouth of hell if the Lord should but snap in sunder the slender thred of your lives you would presently fall into hell Men thing the pleasures of sin very sweet the Lord knows they are bitterness in the latter end the sweet meat of sin will have sowre sauce sin is the dearest commodity in the world you will repent your bargain at last though you sin at never so cheap a rate you will pay too dear for it you will say then the devil was to hard for you he cheated you you gave him too much Sin cost men their lives and their souls more precious then pearls or r●●ies and lose heaven too by the bargain The ●●ges of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ Rom. 6.22 Strive therefore to enter in at the strait gate get to heaven though the way be hard yet strive you have the command of Christ his example the example of all the Prophets and Apostles and having such a cloud of witnesses be not discouraged but run with patience the race that is set before you suffer not Satan to deceive you it you do you will surely repent it when it is too late Consider by the example of Dives and Lazarus is it not better think you to be in heaven with Lazarus then to be in hell with Dives Dives he wanted nothing on 〈◊〉 had the world at will fared deliciously every day but is now in hell and wants a drop of water L●●●●●● he lived in great wants and miseries had not wherewithal to relieve his hungry body full of ●ores men they looked scornfully on him and did him not so much favour as the dogs they came and licked his so●es but Dives denied him the very crumbs that fell from his table to the Dog● What think you did not Lazarus endure much hardship to get to heaven he was here in much misery full of woes now in heaven hath rivers of pleasure joy unspeakable and full of glory O beloved it is better to beg our ●re●● here with Lazarus for a little season on earth then to beg our water with Dives in hell to all eternity We should not fudge that worth much now in the time of our life which will be of no worth here after Riches saith Solomon make themselves wings and flee away they are uncertain here to day and gon to morrow as woful experience tells us and are worth just nothing in the day of Judgement in the life to come they are worthless things there will be an end of them But godliness hath the promise of the life that now is and the life to come 1 Tim. 4.8 When Dives was in his pontiffcalibus had his purple clothing and dainty fare every day who would not be Dives then almost every one But when we read of Dives in hell torments then who would be Dives certainly none at all Dives would now be content to be a begger in the estate of Lazarus ●en thousand years i● he might be released out of his torments ●o likewise when we read of poor Lazarus a beggar f●●ll of sores wanting bread in great distress of body who would be Lazarus in that case certainly none at all But when 〈…〉 of Lazarus in Abrahams bosome Lazarus in heaven then who would not be Lazarus if he might But if we would be Lazarus in heaven we must be Lazarus on earth if we would dye the death of the righteous we must live the life of the righteous If we would sit down in the Kingdom of Heaven with Abraham Isaac and Jacob and all the Prophets Apostles and Saints of God we must tread in their steps they have beaten the way they have made it plain for us if we will their path is clearly to bée seen we must walk as they walked soberly live as